Succession reminded me that, starting from the premise that the powerful aren’t a unified block, some of the biggest battle lines in the western world are between new vs old media empires. Murdoch vs Zuckerberg, old vs new money, entrenched monopolies vs emerging monopolies, big finance vs big tech. Neither really care all that much about the political issues that their empires trumpet or echo to their bases, as long as people are kept busy and divided. Corporate wokeness is largely a new money, west coat invention, which doesn’t give a damn about addressing structural inequality so much as it provides leverage for boardroom coups.What is succession if not peak old media (HBO, cable) worshiping itself whilst also acknowledging it doesn’t know what to do next(against Netflix & YouTube)?